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UNIVERSITY
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Volume 81 • Number 8
Battle of the Bands entertained all
By Meika Vogel
Over 300 students attended this year's Battle of the Bands,
themed '80s hip-hop.
Nine bands participated in
the competition held in the Benson Great Hall on Friday, Oct
21. After each band performed
one song in the first round of
the competition, the judges
chose three to play again. At the
end of the evening, Titus James
won the competition, winning
S500. Fat Matt and the Fountain Heads took second place,
winning $300, and Cans finished third, winning $100.
Decorations and entertainment between bands followed
the theme. Xavier Rucker, di
rector of weekend programs
for student activities, and his
committee were in charge of the
event. "I really like the planning
part of it...getting the bands
auditioned and interacting with
the committee," said Rucker.
Fifteen bands originally auditioned, and members of SA
chose nine to participate. The
bands chosen were The Shoes,
Caris, Everain, Fat Matt and the
Fountainheads, Postcard Memories, Titus James, Heidi Holt,
Hilo, and We are Chris Frost.
Six judges, all Bethel staff
members, chose the winners.
Rucker said throughout the
auditions and during the eom-
Titus James, winner of Battle of the Bands, performed an acoustic act
that consisted of James and djembe player Lucas Bryant.
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Mason Dixon and the Lines treated the crowd to an unexpected performance at the end of the evening.
Fat Matt and the Fountainheads gave the audience a taste of blue-
grass.
petition, bands were judged by
criteria such as "stage presence,
musical professionalism, lyrics,
and overall performance."
James, a freshman, played
guitar and sang and was accompanied by Lucas Bryant on
the djembe drum. Previous to
Battle of the Bands, James has
used his talents to lead worship for small groups. As for
the competition, James said, "1
wanted to participate in Battle
of the Bands because I have
never played in such a big auditorium and through such an
awesome sound-system. Also, I
enjoy praising God with the gift
he has given me,"
Fat Matt and the Fountain-
heads is a bluegrass band made
up of four guys, Matt Hildreth,
Doug Ekbom, Tom Sveen, and
Wes Myers. They met in Nelson their freshman year, but the
band in its current form is only
about a month old. The Battle of
the Bands was the groups' first
performance.
The band had a unique
combination of instruments,
including a banjo, harmonica,
and a fiddle. As for Battle of
the Bands, Sveen, a junior, said,
"We just wanted to have fun,
enjoy the performance, and
spread the message of Bluegrass
to Bethel University." He said
the band hopes to possibly play
in a few local coffee houses in
the future.
Caris had participated in
the Battle of the Bands before
but didn't make the finals. Josh
Dekker, Jake Louwsma, Clayton Lott, and Danny Warnock
have made up Caris in its present form for about a year and a
half. Their music comes from a
wide range of influences but can
be classified as alternative indie
pop rock.
Warnock, a junior, said Battle of the Bands "is just a good
way for people to see us play
who wouldn't otherwise...and
just being a part of Bethel."
Some bands, such as Caris
and Everain, had participated
in previous years. Everain, the
two-member group of Libbie
Kent and Todd Anderson, won
the competition last year. They
participated again this year
"mostly just to have a chance to
play...it's a good way to push
yourself musically," said Kent.
Others, such as Titus James
and Heidi Holt, were newcomers. Holt said of the competition, "1 feel that the Lord has
given me a message to share
and 1 want to share that with as
many people as I can."
Rucker was pleased with
how smoothly the competition
went overall. "The bands just
have fun and play for God," he
said. They are "glorifying God
and using their talents regardless of who [wins]."
Faculty mentorship program improved
Students the biggest benefactors of change
By Stephanie Schmidt
As the result of a grant being awarded to Bethel to foster
its faculty mentoring program,
students should be excited to
know that they will be getting
more for their money in the
classroom. •
Over the past 10 years,
Bethel's number of full-time
faculty has increased by 50 percent, from 120 to 180. On average, Bethel's halls are home
to 10-15 new faculty members
each year, and most of these additions have been as a result of
added positions—not because
of retirements or resignations.
"That says something about
how the school is growing in
numbers," said Pamela Erwin,
co-director of faculty development. "But it also says something... about Bethel's commitment to adding full-time
faculty."
Erwin and Marion Larson
head up the faculty development program here at Bethel.
While Bethel's focus for faculty
is in the areas of teaching, scholarship and service, the faculty
development program wants to
focus on the first two areas and
really develop them through
faculty mentoring.
"The primary goal is for us
to support faculty particularly
in the areas of teaching and
scholarship," said Erwin. "We're
a leaching university Some
schools are research-focused.
Our primary focus is on teaching, so that's always a priority,
but the research and study that
we do... will make our teaching
better."
Until this year, Bethel's faculty mentoring program had
been very limited. With only
one coordinator in the past, and
an informal and volunteer-based
mentoring program between
first-year and "senior" faculty,
$12,000 grants to improve its
faculty mentoring program.
First and second-year faculty will now be paired with
mentors in their departments.
These pairs will meet formally
and will also meet up with another pair and a senior mentor from the department every
five weeks to work together.
They will focus on questions of
teaching, integrating faith and
"If our commitment is educating
students both from a faith perspective
and a liberal arts education perspective,
then we have to continue to evaluate how
we support and encourage faculty."
-Pamela Erwin
changes needed to be made,.
When Erwin became Larson's co-director, the two prepared the proposal/application
for a grant from the Lilly Foundation (a charitable arm of Lilly
Pharmaceuticals). The Lilly Fellows Grant provides grants to
three schools per year to help
further faculty mentoring programs in Christian higher education.
Only schools that belong
to this competitive foundation
may apply for the grant. After
being in the program for four
years, Bethel received one of the
learning, strengthening their
personal learning and scholarship, and translating that into
the classroom.
"It strengthens their learning and development," said Erwin. "We're trying to implement
for faculty what we encourage
faculty to do in the classroom."
Each of the faculty involved will receive a small stipend (which is where most of
the $12,000 will go). "It's to
encourage them and say We're
committed to this, so if you're
willing to commit your time
we'll pay you,'" said Erwin.
Erwin believes that this
grant is especially important
to Bethel's faculty development
and for student development as
well. "I think it's important because if we live up to our commitment of educating students,
if our commitment is educating
students both from a faith perspective and a liberal arts education perspective, then we have
to continue to evaluate how we
support and encourage faculty,"
she said.
On top of that, Erwin feels
that it is important, as Christians, to support faculty as individuals and not just teachers.
"As kingdom people, we
have a responsibility... how do
we encourage [faculty] to develop their own gifts in the areas of
leaching and scholarship," she
said.
In the end, Erwin wants
students to know thai they will
be the ones to benefit from this
grant. In her words, the goal of
this grant and the program is to
"help faculty do what they do
with students, and do it better."
"Bethel has received this
grant. It's going to help faculty
be better at what they do, so ultimately [students] are getting
more for [their] money," she
said.
Gulu Walk Minneapolis
Around 200 people, most
of them students, marched
3.5 miles to raise awareness
of the children in Northern
Uganda, Saturday, Oct. 22.
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-A
Ai
GULUWALfC
Porta breaks career
rushing record
In last Saturday's loss to Concordia, junior running
back Phil Porta broke the Bethel record for career
rushing yards previously held by Mike Johnson
099-'O2). As a reward for his efforts, Porta was
named to D3football.corn's Team of the Week.
Photo by Eric Pa/in

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UNIVERSITY
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Volume 81 • Number 8
Battle of the Bands entertained all
By Meika Vogel
Over 300 students attended this year's Battle of the Bands,
themed '80s hip-hop.
Nine bands participated in
the competition held in the Benson Great Hall on Friday, Oct
21. After each band performed
one song in the first round of
the competition, the judges
chose three to play again. At the
end of the evening, Titus James
won the competition, winning
S500. Fat Matt and the Fountain Heads took second place,
winning $300, and Cans finished third, winning $100.
Decorations and entertainment between bands followed
the theme. Xavier Rucker, di
rector of weekend programs
for student activities, and his
committee were in charge of the
event. "I really like the planning
part of it...getting the bands
auditioned and interacting with
the committee," said Rucker.
Fifteen bands originally auditioned, and members of SA
chose nine to participate. The
bands chosen were The Shoes,
Caris, Everain, Fat Matt and the
Fountainheads, Postcard Memories, Titus James, Heidi Holt,
Hilo, and We are Chris Frost.
Six judges, all Bethel staff
members, chose the winners.
Rucker said throughout the
auditions and during the eom-
Titus James, winner of Battle of the Bands, performed an acoustic act
that consisted of James and djembe player Lucas Bryant.
W% rM
______%■■ '""'a^a^al
IE.- #fl
____W^hy -IH
a^BP5^^S ;JJ
■Kpt \mH
W_W
wvfi>f2_jf%frm
l-JS
;
^atTfR
Mason Dixon and the Lines treated the crowd to an unexpected performance at the end of the evening.
Fat Matt and the Fountainheads gave the audience a taste of blue-
grass.
petition, bands were judged by
criteria such as "stage presence,
musical professionalism, lyrics,
and overall performance."
James, a freshman, played
guitar and sang and was accompanied by Lucas Bryant on
the djembe drum. Previous to
Battle of the Bands, James has
used his talents to lead worship for small groups. As for
the competition, James said, "1
wanted to participate in Battle
of the Bands because I have
never played in such a big auditorium and through such an
awesome sound-system. Also, I
enjoy praising God with the gift
he has given me,"
Fat Matt and the Fountain-
heads is a bluegrass band made
up of four guys, Matt Hildreth,
Doug Ekbom, Tom Sveen, and
Wes Myers. They met in Nelson their freshman year, but the
band in its current form is only
about a month old. The Battle of
the Bands was the groups' first
performance.
The band had a unique
combination of instruments,
including a banjo, harmonica,
and a fiddle. As for Battle of
the Bands, Sveen, a junior, said,
"We just wanted to have fun,
enjoy the performance, and
spread the message of Bluegrass
to Bethel University." He said
the band hopes to possibly play
in a few local coffee houses in
the future.
Caris had participated in
the Battle of the Bands before
but didn't make the finals. Josh
Dekker, Jake Louwsma, Clayton Lott, and Danny Warnock
have made up Caris in its present form for about a year and a
half. Their music comes from a
wide range of influences but can
be classified as alternative indie
pop rock.
Warnock, a junior, said Battle of the Bands "is just a good
way for people to see us play
who wouldn't otherwise...and
just being a part of Bethel."
Some bands, such as Caris
and Everain, had participated
in previous years. Everain, the
two-member group of Libbie
Kent and Todd Anderson, won
the competition last year. They
participated again this year
"mostly just to have a chance to
play...it's a good way to push
yourself musically," said Kent.
Others, such as Titus James
and Heidi Holt, were newcomers. Holt said of the competition, "1 feel that the Lord has
given me a message to share
and 1 want to share that with as
many people as I can."
Rucker was pleased with
how smoothly the competition
went overall. "The bands just
have fun and play for God," he
said. They are "glorifying God
and using their talents regardless of who [wins]."
Faculty mentorship program improved
Students the biggest benefactors of change
By Stephanie Schmidt
As the result of a grant being awarded to Bethel to foster
its faculty mentoring program,
students should be excited to
know that they will be getting
more for their money in the
classroom. •
Over the past 10 years,
Bethel's number of full-time
faculty has increased by 50 percent, from 120 to 180. On average, Bethel's halls are home
to 10-15 new faculty members
each year, and most of these additions have been as a result of
added positions—not because
of retirements or resignations.
"That says something about
how the school is growing in
numbers," said Pamela Erwin,
co-director of faculty development. "But it also says something... about Bethel's commitment to adding full-time
faculty."
Erwin and Marion Larson
head up the faculty development program here at Bethel.
While Bethel's focus for faculty
is in the areas of teaching, scholarship and service, the faculty
development program wants to
focus on the first two areas and
really develop them through
faculty mentoring.
"The primary goal is for us
to support faculty particularly
in the areas of teaching and
scholarship," said Erwin. "We're
a leaching university Some
schools are research-focused.
Our primary focus is on teaching, so that's always a priority,
but the research and study that
we do... will make our teaching
better."
Until this year, Bethel's faculty mentoring program had
been very limited. With only
one coordinator in the past, and
an informal and volunteer-based
mentoring program between
first-year and "senior" faculty,
$12,000 grants to improve its
faculty mentoring program.
First and second-year faculty will now be paired with
mentors in their departments.
These pairs will meet formally
and will also meet up with another pair and a senior mentor from the department every
five weeks to work together.
They will focus on questions of
teaching, integrating faith and
"If our commitment is educating
students both from a faith perspective
and a liberal arts education perspective,
then we have to continue to evaluate how
we support and encourage faculty."
-Pamela Erwin
changes needed to be made,.
When Erwin became Larson's co-director, the two prepared the proposal/application
for a grant from the Lilly Foundation (a charitable arm of Lilly
Pharmaceuticals). The Lilly Fellows Grant provides grants to
three schools per year to help
further faculty mentoring programs in Christian higher education.
Only schools that belong
to this competitive foundation
may apply for the grant. After
being in the program for four
years, Bethel received one of the
learning, strengthening their
personal learning and scholarship, and translating that into
the classroom.
"It strengthens their learning and development," said Erwin. "We're trying to implement
for faculty what we encourage
faculty to do in the classroom."
Each of the faculty involved will receive a small stipend (which is where most of
the $12,000 will go). "It's to
encourage them and say We're
committed to this, so if you're
willing to commit your time
we'll pay you,'" said Erwin.
Erwin believes that this
grant is especially important
to Bethel's faculty development
and for student development as
well. "I think it's important because if we live up to our commitment of educating students,
if our commitment is educating
students both from a faith perspective and a liberal arts education perspective, then we have
to continue to evaluate how we
support and encourage faculty,"
she said.
On top of that, Erwin feels
that it is important, as Christians, to support faculty as individuals and not just teachers.
"As kingdom people, we
have a responsibility... how do
we encourage [faculty] to develop their own gifts in the areas of
leaching and scholarship," she
said.
In the end, Erwin wants
students to know thai they will
be the ones to benefit from this
grant. In her words, the goal of
this grant and the program is to
"help faculty do what they do
with students, and do it better."
"Bethel has received this
grant. It's going to help faculty
be better at what they do, so ultimately [students] are getting
more for [their] money," she
said.
Gulu Walk Minneapolis
Around 200 people, most
of them students, marched
3.5 miles to raise awareness
of the children in Northern
Uganda, Saturday, Oct. 22.
TOllN
■ITI hRFkli!
M
I f
\
I5w^gHluwalk.cokT
-A
Ai
GULUWALfC
Porta breaks career
rushing record
In last Saturday's loss to Concordia, junior running
back Phil Porta broke the Bethel record for career
rushing yards previously held by Mike Johnson
099-'O2). As a reward for his efforts, Porta was
named to D3football.corn's Team of the Week.
Photo by Eric Pa/in